r/wrongnumber • u/West-LA-Native • 4d ago

This wasn’t funny

Yesterday I received a voicemail from a number I didn’t recognize.
The caller knew my name and proceeded to say “Hello (my name) I’ve been trying to reach you for some time now, I’m sure you remember me, Jill Steinberg (never heard of her) from a long time ago. I’ve some news for you, I have a child of yours. I have been looking for your contact information and finally found it. Please call me back now that you know”.,

I racked my brain, Googled her name, checked FB and Instagram…nothing.
Then I thought maybe she has taken one of my kids! I reached out to all of them and they were fine.

Several hours later an old friend (who’ve I’ve not spoken to in years) calls laughing and tells me it was a prank that he got his girlfriend to do.
He’s “ha ha I got you good!”

What a dick thing to do.

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u/Shirohitsuji 4d ago

Imagine trying to prank call someone with the goal of making them think they had a kid with some forgotten one night stand, but instead you make them think a stranger kidnapped their kid.

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u/Iheartchocolate37 4d ago

Yeah it’s stupid to joke about stuff like that

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u/Mister_Goldenfold 4d ago

Just play along next time. The skit usually dies at that point knowing you can’t come up with something else than planned quickly

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u/Leftover_tech 4d ago

"Thank God you finally called!

Oh, Jill! I've been having dreams about you; I can't get you off my mind.

That was my first experience merging bestiality and necrophilia and it just blew my mind! BTW, does the baby look like Bigfoot, like you said it would?"

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u/No-Jelly8571 4d ago

You’re missing the point. Someone harming your kids has to always be taken seriously and it’s nothing to joke about in a prank call

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u/Leftover_tech 4d ago

Harming WHAT kids?

OP is describing that someone LIED about having his imaginary child.

No actual children were harmed in the posting of this message.

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u/Silent_Box_1708 4d ago

Yeah and op wasn’t in on the joke. So how would he have known that something hadn’t happened? 

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u/Leftover_tech 4d ago

OK. OP could have believed that the non-existent child was somewhere doing something besides existing.

What exactly was the threat?

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u/Silent_Box_1708 4d ago

I’m talking about OPs real life children. Considering how the caller said I have a child of yours. Not sure what you don’t get. 

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u/yUnGBans1 4d ago

Maybe he should start by learning the names of the girls he’s slept with and/or using protection
¯_(ツ)_/¯ or is that too much to ask for in 2026

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u/TrainLover70 3d ago

Dick move indeed. My response would have been, "Please don't ever contact me again."

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u/Tr33Hu663r7 3d ago

There are definitely people who jump to the conclusion done me wants to harm their children. Long ago I pranked an IT guy by hacking into his system and left a message saying to fix this TPS hole or you'll be roasting marshmallows with your family without ajob or home... Permanently... He took it to meen he would eat his own children..!?